While cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, almost half of the states of the US have now legalised it for recreational use. But what effect has this had on health, and how are researchers monitoring the situation?

Niall Boyce and Mariam Sabin from the Lancet chat with Professor Deborah Hasin, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University.

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